An edge protector for the edges of roll shaped articles, e.g. pallets, reeled steel and paper products is made from an elongated sheet (10) of plastics material, the sheet having an indentation (11) extending longitudinally along a major surface of the sheet and extending only partially into the thickness of the sheet. The indentation (11) divides the sheet into webs (12, 13) which are folded into...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To melt snow efficiently in energy conservation by making a part of heat energy applied to snow melting depend upon solar-heat energy according to weather without completely depending upon fuel. SOLUTION: An air flow passage 2 is formed just under a roof material 1' having an excellent heat conductivity or a superior solar absorptivity, and a circulating duct 39, to which an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the residual of a water content and oxygen in a steam cooling system, and prevent oxidation and corrosion in the steam cooling system at the stopping and storage time of a gas turbine by connecting an inert gas supply system causing the inert gas to flow to the upstream of a steam cooling system high temperature portion containing a gas turbine high temperature p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a dynamic torque loss generated in each bearing by reducing a load placed between an output side bearing and an input side bearing by applying the hydraulic force of an opposite direction. SOLUTION: A hydraulic force generating section 7 is composed of cylinders 91 and 92 and pistons 21 and 22. This hydraulic force generating section 7 drives the pistons 21 and 22 r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the damaging or wearing of a disk plate and a gear case by providing an oblong hole extended in the diameter direction of a rotary body in a holder to house a rolling body, a groove in the opposite surface of the rotary body for engaging the rolling body and a conical spring and a rotary plate in a pressure providing means. SOLUTION: A disk plate 3 is formed to be ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust an operation limit effect by providing a pressure adjusting mechanism in a pressure providing means and attaching an adjusted part to the outer surface of an input side rotary body. SOLUTION: A pressure providing means 3c inserts a thrust bearing 3c1, a flat washer 3c2, a conical spring 3c3 and a wedge from an outer periphery and stacks these on a wedgelike washer. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intermitting means which can separate a block member and a differential case with a simple structure while obtaining large differential restricting force by supporting a pinion gear by block members. SOLUTION: A differential device has a bevel gear type differential mechanism 3 which is arranged in a differential case 15 and is composed of a pinion gear 27 and o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify a structure, attain size reduction/weight reduction, shorten a differential device in the shaft direction, and improve compatibility of members while having a control function of differential rotation. SOLUTION: A differential device has a differential case 43 driven in rotation by driving force of an engine, a differential gear mechanism 3 to distribute rotation ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obviate a design change in output shafts, and restrain short a shaft directional dimension of a differential device which can transmit driving torque between the output shafts. SOLUTION: A differential device has a bevel gear type differential gear mechanism 17 to differentially distribute driving force of an engine inputted to a differential case 3 to respective output sh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear support structure by which size reduction/weight reduction in the whole rotational driving device can be attained by obtaining high slipping-out strength, and supporting gears in a cantilever condition. SOLUTION: In a gear support structure to rotatably support gears 21, 22 and 25 continuously arranged on an output shaft of a rotational driving device by a g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely support a gear even in a cantilever state by forming a groove part in the inserting part of a gear post erected in an attaching plate into a hole part. SOLUTION: In the inserting part of a gear post 30 into the hole part of a bottom plate 1C, one line of a groove part 31 is formed toward a circumferential direction, the end of the gear post 30 where the groove part ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the leakage of an oil liquid to the outside and to simplify a structure by providing a sub oil filter housing part partitioned by a partition wall formed integrally with a transmission case in the inner lower part of the transmission case. SOLUTION: A transmission housing part 68 and a sub oil filter housing part 70 are partitioned by a partition 71 formed integral...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of disorder feeling in association with corner control. SOLUTION: The device is provided with means 101 for deciding a recommend speed stage of an automatic transmission on the basis of car speed and a road condition, means for detecting a present position of a vehicle, means 102 for recognizing the present position of the vehicle, means 100 for selectin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change setting easily when a continuously variable transmission is mounted on a vehicle with an ABS, and is assembled with various kinds of engine and a car body. SOLUTION: Control is carried out according to a target value from a driving shaft torque command device 40 while an ABS is operated by an ABS control device 20 for controlling a brake device so as to suppress loc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deceleration feeling corresponding to expectation of a driver when an acceleration operation is stopped by determining a target deceleration ratio, determining a stage of a transmission based on that, performing engine braking, and when shortage occurs, compensating it by a braking means. SOLUTION: When a driver stops operating an accelerator pedal 5 so as to dec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To employ an electric apparatus that has a low-cost structure and requires no measures against noises in an automatic transmission. SOLUTION: An automatic transmission holds a control valve, which is hollowed partly in the outer surface of its valve body 10 and is mounted in the hollow with an automatic transmission control unit(ATCU) 12 held separated from the inner surface ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solar heat utilization hot water supply system capable of utilizing a heating medium without deteriorating the heating medium in a short time by making use of a fact that even if the heat medium is continuously heated, temperature of the heating medium does not exceed heat-resistant temperature. SOLUTION: A heat pipe 26 is mounted on a side of a body 24a of a res...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely estimate the road frictional coefficient with excellent responsiveness with a simple processing according to traveling condition by setting the value of road frictional coefficient as an initial value forming the base of the estimation of road frictional coefficient according to the input from a specified input means of a vehicle. SOLUTION: The control program of...

PCT No. PCT/FR96/00140 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 14, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 14, 1997 PCT Filed Jan. 26, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/00140 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 26, 1996A process and device for preparing bivalves, in particular oysters, for opening. The process consists of partially opening the bivalve, then encircling the adductor muscle of the bivalve with a ring or similar, one part of which, designed for ...

The tread of a heavy duty pneumatic vehicle tyre has depth indicators (5) at the sections radially under the profile grooves (2). Each depth indicator (5) shows the min. tread depth for an effective road grip, and the max. wear which cannot be exceeded.